I'm preparing the car for a 1200km/750mile trip to my in-laws on Sunday. Then this happens on a Friday evening. FML! 😫
I've only just bought 2 new tyres for 450k sats just last week. I'm at least grateful that it's not one of those that blew out, but it still had much life left in it until this happened. 😕
#Carstr of #Nostr
Heads up bro!
We found my old car has rotten back behind one wheel. After short brainstorm whether the time of ditching it off the cliff came, we calculated it's still cheaper..
Oh no. That's an awkward place to have rot.
Having someone around that can weld is very useful for keeping old cars going.
These old Audi A4s go through front wheel arches/wings/fenders. But it's not so bad, because they are easy to replace, and easy to get hold of at a sensible price.
I drove it today (only on 5th gear) 200 km to a guy who has like 8 saabs and mends them alone, because he claims services are shit. And immediately got out BY HAND a huge screw they put behind engine few days ago, it's bigger than the hole and broke off piece of aluminium with it. He was furious about this, for the back wheel called his friend welder and other service (because he kinda remembered this car from few years ago, it came to us from around here), thought about changing the back for some of his stuff etc.. I hope he will deliver solid job, he seemed seriously interested in some common sense around the repair and he repairs saabs 95 exclusively, so he knows everything. Anyway I'm quite bothered how reliable Saab services are, I smelled BS for some time now.
That sounds like the right kind of guy for the job. They have usually seen it all before, know exactly what to do for the best, and it also breaks their heart if they can't save them.
Yes. I told him what it's doing over the phone and he knew precisely what it is, why and how to fix that. That's why he gets the job across the republic, services next door didn't give a F. Only this guy extensively explained why I need a new transmission, that I have older type doing this and it's solved in newer type, the others just shrugged. I wish we had a garage😮💨
GM #Nostr. I need another #coffee. ☕😥
Phoning around tyre centres this morning, desperately trying to find the correct tyre that's available on a Saturday.
